Henge

The National Monuments Service's description

Enclosing a hilltop with a steep drop to the SW and a more gradual fall of slope to the NE before the ground levels out within the NE quadrant. Ringfort (TS075-040----) located c. 50m to the NE. The summit of the hill runs NW-SE roughly through the centre of the monument. Large steep-sided hillock (diam. 170m N-S and E-W) enclosed by internal fosse (Wth 3.4m) and large substantial outer bank (Wth crest 6-10.5m; base 8.7-14m; int. H 2.3-2.78m; ext. H 1.17-3.6m). A modern stone wall has been built on portion of the bank in the NE quadrant from N to NE. The summit has been partially quarried into resulting in an irregular hollow N of centre. There is a cattle gap through the bank in the WSW. There is a lot of stone evident in the grass-covered bank. The bank in the S quadrant has been quarried into and the bank in the SE is slightly denuded. From E-SE the bank has been levelled with only low traces surviving. In the NW sector the bank kinks out to form a possible structure (dims. 10.3m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) or may be result of quarrying. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) to the enclosure immediately W of this structure. The OS Letters refer to some interference with the bank at the NE and S sides where 'lately part of it was pared off outwardly...for a byroad that runs here now' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 125).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 April 2014

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.